Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.

Do not feel certain of anything.

Races are not won by the fastest athletes. Fights are not won by the strongest men. But the races are won and the fights are won by those who want to win most of all.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

There is no education like adversity.

My prayer is that when I die, all hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.